Will Shiv Sena’s (UBT) Chandrakant Khaire Win Chatrapati Sambhajinagar? (image-facebook/
Chandrakant Khaire is fielded as the Shiv Sena candidate from the Chatrapati Sambhajinagar constituency. Chandrakant after announcing his candidateship said that this would be his last election and expressed his confidence about emerging victorious.
Khaire is a member of the Shiv Sena political party from Aurangabad. He has been elected consecutively for 4 terms in Lok Sabha representing Aurangabad in 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014. Khaire in the upcoming election will face Imtiyaz Jaleel, the sitting Lok Sabha MP from Aurangabad. The AIMIM leader is one of the main challengers of Khaire.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Jaleel defeated Khaire by a margin of 4,492 votes. Born on 1952, Khaire hails from Aurangabad. He has completed his diploma in Personnel Management from Marathwada University. Besides being a politician and a social worker, Khaire is also an industrialist and a trade unionist by profession.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) leader has also been a two-time MLA from Aurangabad West in 1990 and 1995. He also served as a cabinet minister in the Maharashtra state government from 1995 to 1999 in the Shiv Sena government.
However, the Lok Sabha constituency of Aurangabad which has recently undergone a name change will see a repeat of the fight witnessed in 2019. The constituency was won by the undivided Shiv Sena six times since 1989, but five years ago the Bal Thackeray-founded party suffered a setback when its veteran leader Chandrakant Khaire faced an unexpected defeat at the hands of AIMIM candidate Imtiaz Jaleel. This constituency consists of the rural assembly segments of Kannad, Gangapur, and Vaijapur and the urban seats of Aurangabad Central, West and East. The Lok Sabha constituency comprises 30,52,724 voters, including 16,00,169 men, 14,52,415 women and 140 third-gender persons. Aurangabad was initially a Congress stronghold with the grand old party winning the seat multiple times in elections post-independence.
